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Joaquin Flores's piece on the Strait of Gibraltar is largely agitation and propaganda. For Spain to do otherwise would have been tantamount to a declaration of war.
ReplyDeleteOne can always find some British or American putative expert to opine mindlessly on international relations, and then use that to speak in broad terms about what this means for NATO or the "American Empire."
The truth is that Maritime transit through the Gibraltar Strait has been free and unimpeded for all vessels during most recent periods of history, although at times this free transit has had to be enforced with military might. Since the drafting of the UN Convention on the Law of the Sea, no serious attempts have been made by Spain or Morocco to limit passage through the Strait of Gibraltar, but Spain did issue a declaration when ratifying the Convention saying that it understands that the straits regime in the Convention “is compatible with the right of the bordering State to enact and enforce in straits used for international navigation its own regulations, provided that such regulations do not interfere with the right of transit passage.”
So everyone without exception is allowed through, but you have to behave in line with Spanish and Moroccan rules.